IT will be a Mother’s Day like no other this year, as florists are scrambling to prepare scores of flower bouquets to be delivered across the country in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. “If suppliers don’t get flowers, we don’t get flowers and we can’t operate. We’ve had to kind of manage with reduced stock, because of the reduced amount coming from Holland. “A lot of the big shops in the city and outside the city have already closed and are not even doing Mother’s Day,” Ms Buckley said. Conor McCarthy of Precious Flowers, based in Clontarf, Co Dublin, said Mother’s Day is giving florists’ “false hope.”“The day-to-day bread and butter business is down massively because there are people working from home.

Source: Irish Independent March 21, 2020 15:56 UTC